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SUMMARY:Nicolas Nova / ARCHIZOOM
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DESCRIPTION:Nicolas Nova\, Tiphaine Abenia\nIf any building designed accor
 ding to the currently dominant architectural principles is ‘zombie’\, 
 non-living\, as it is based on technologies and energies that will soon be
  exhausted or too costly for the planet\, how can we rethink our relations
 hip with buildings and technology? What are the possible attitudes between
  the usual categories of cutting-edge technology\, high-tech\, and its ant
 onym\, low-tech?\n\nAs part of the lecture series for the exhibition Beyo
 nd High Tech Low Tech\, we are delighted to welcome Nicolas Nova\, anthrop
 ologist\, for a lecture entitled Wild Tech\, moderated by the architect Ti
 phaine Abenia.\n\n—\n\nNicolas Nova is Professor at the Haute école 
 d’art et de design (HEAD – Geneva)\, where he teaches and conducts an
 thropological research on contemporary cultures linked to the changes brou
 ght about by digital technologies and the environmental crisis. He is also
  co-founder of explorare\, a prospective exploration agency. With a multi
 disciplinary background\, at the crossroads of natural sciences\, anthropo
 logy and artistic practices\, he is interested in investigative approaches
  between ethnography and creation. His latest books are Exercices d’ob
 servation. Dans les pas des anthropologues\, des écrivains\, des designer
 s et des naturalistes du quotidien (Premier Parallèle)\, and Fragments 
 d’une montagne. Les Alpes et leurs métamorphoses (Éditions du Pommier
 ).\n\nTiphaine Abenia is a civil engineer and an architect. She is curre
 ntly an assistant professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE). S
 he holds a Ph.D. in architectural theory from the University of Montreal a
 nd the University of Toulouse (2019). Her research focuses on liminal urba
 n phenomena\, non-extractive registers in architecture\, and critical desi
 gn tools. Her doctoral thesis\, titled “Potential Architecture of Abando
 ned Large Structures (ALS): Categorization and Projection\,” reexamined 
 the entire life cycle of constructions and questioned the possibilities an
 d limitations of architectural taxonomies in a context of resource scarcit
 y. Tiphaine Abenia is a co-founder of the association ACĒ (Atelier de Con
 ception Non-Extractive) and the Truant School (a para-institutional platfo
 rm for research and intervention). She was co-curator of the French pavili
 on for the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice with the project “Commun
 ities at Work” (2021).
LOCATION:Archizoom Gallery https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201212
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